Improvement in raking attachments for harvesters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' BENJAMIN SMITH, OF BATAVIA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAKING ATTACHMENTS FOR HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,219, dated July 14, 1863.

and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, .making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a part of a reaping-machine, showing the manner of attachiug the rake to the driving wheel or power of said machine.

A Letter A is a driving-wheel with a crank, B, attached to the end of the shaft. Said crank has a crooked neck with a ball-journal, as seen in Fig. 2, on one end, which is connected with one end of a pitman, O, with a socket to t and receive the ball, while the other end is attached to the rake-holder D by means of a socket-joint, the pitman having a slot in the end, Fig. 3, orjoint for a bolt to pass, as seen in Figs. 3 and 2, through, holding them firmly together and admitting the pitman being eX- tended and contracted as the turning ot' the crank requires.

| The rakehead E is made to roll up as the grain comes oli' the platform by means of a iinger-like piece, F, on one side of the rake, which comes in contact with a projection ou the stand H. When rolled up it is held by a catch, I, that drops into a notch until it returns for another bundle, when, as the lower end of the catch presses the rim of the stand O, it raises the catch and the rake falls.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I ciaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a rake that is operated by a crooked-necked crank and a exible or ball-and-socket connection, and rolled up upon a guide-piece, F, a self con necting and disconnecting catch, I, that holds-the rake up at certain intervals and allows it to drop upon the platform when about to clear it of the cut grain, substantially as described and represented.

In witness that I claim the above I have l BENJ. SMITH.

Witnesses:

L. K. OsBoRN, O. L. WHEELooK. 

